Meet the Features team

Technology: Relevant angles include GDS/booking platform news; new apps from agencies or for agents; insight into use of social media for agents/travel sellers; travel agencies using technology innovatively; heads of technology/digital marketing that might work for a profile piece. contact: Matt, [email protected]

MarkeTing Magic: Relevant angles include: advice on doing in-store marketing, advertising and PR, digital marketing, and client events better (case studies help). Interviews with heads of marketing. Reports from marketing events. contact: Abra, [email protected]

advisor: This section draws on the expertise of accountants, lawyers and HR professionals to help readers run their businesses efficiently and keep within the law.

geT ahead: Career and recruitment advice, with columns and tips from experts; coverage of careers fairs, apprentice schemes, and travel and tourism courses; and a regular ‘My Travel Career’ Q&A with an interesting individual. Especially keen to interview a senior figure who started out as an agent or res staff. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

AbigAil HeAlyFeatures Editor [email protected] +44 (0)20 3714 4111 @Abi_TTG

AbrA DunsbyDeputy Features Editor [email protected] +44 (0)20 3714 4112 @AbraDunsby

AnDrew DoHertyFeatures Reporter [email protected] +44 (0)20 3405 6526 @Andrew_TTG

MAttHew PArsonsTechnology Editor [email protected] +44 (0)20 3714 4109 @matt_parsons

Meet the Features team

toolkitThis meaty section of case studies and expert advice gives business-building ideas and guidance to agent readers. Many of the leads for this section come from supplier sales teams tipping us off about interesting agents they have come across and interesting ways in which they are working with agents.

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Meet the Features team

selling Power: Sales skills and customer service, with advice and case studies from across the travel and service industries. Covers consumer buying habits, overcoming objections, selling to niche markets, sales tools, body language, etc. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

good Business: Advice on how to operate more sustainably and responsibly. Case-study led. Will sometimes cover what other suppliers are doing in the responsible business/sustainable tourism sphere. contact: Abra, [email protected]

MeeT The reP: Profile of on-the-road sales person working in the travel industry, written to a template. contact: Andrew, [email protected]

geTaway: A three-page section at the back of the magazine entirely focussed on agents. Please submit photos of agents and agent-facing events (that do not conflict with our own) to [email protected], or to Andrew, [email protected]. Images must be high-resolution, and we will need names and companies if there are four or fewer people in the picture.

Product featuresThe features list is online at ttgmedia.com/advertise. Please contact Abigail to receive a synopsis for a feature six weeks ahead of the publication date. We keep a spreadsheet of key contacts for every feature area, and try to send the synopsis out when it is ready. If you’d like to be added to the list, tell us which list and for which client. If you don’t receive a synopsis, do ask – sometimes we might have little space for additional news so we don’t actively canvas for more. Both our in-house journalists and our team of freelancers frequently travel to write product features, so we’re keen to receive press trip invites – send them to Abigail. Setting up a bespoke trip, on which we know we’ll be getting exclusive angles, just right for our readership, can sometimes be preferable to a group press trip.

in The FraMe: Interviews with travel industry personalities, especially those with really unusual or interesting roles eg “a director of romance”, a conservationist, a celebrity with a travel hook. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

TTg hoT lisT: We save space for news snippets in features, but they need to be recent announcements (ie released 2-4 weeks before publication date of that feature) and not already covered by the news team. Also includes agent offers. The Hot List is an image-led page so also attaching a couple of eye-catching, high-resolution pictures is essential. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

60 seconds wiTh: A mini interview slot with heads of tourist boards, chief executives or sales directors of supplier companies, tied in with a relevant feature. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

BesTseller: A Q&A with top selling agents/travel sellers for a particular destination, sector or add-on, to give tips for other readers. contact: Abigail, [email protected]

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